March 2012
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No Room for Mistakes
Design perfectionists at home
By Penelope Green, NYTimes, 25 January 2012
Todd Waterbury’s apartment is just perfect.
No, really. It’s not simply that his book collection is restricted to titles with black, gray or white bindings, and stacked, jacketless, in neat horizontal rows (and mostly reflects the work of artists who are themselves interested in stacking, grid-making, mapmaking...
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Is Chanel Designer Karl Lagerfeld Spread Too Thin?
Lagerfeld is brilliant at Chanel. But have his other ventures run amok to the detriment of his creative genius?
by Robin Givhan, The Daily Beast, 30 Jan 2012.
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Karl Lagerfeld is overrated.
Such a statement rings like heresy within a fashion universe where the highly acclaimed designer struts upon his lofty stage as the creative director of Chanel—but it’s true.
This pronouncement is not...
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2 months ago, Saatchi Gallery
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Tokyo's vertical thresholds #3: Sou Fujimoto
By Roberto Zancan, Domus 20 Dec 2011
(continues from #2)
The NA House, designed by Sou Fujimoto, is located on a small side street in a very lively, “hip” part of the city. Full of eccentric, off-the-wall little shops, this neighbourhood’s intense social life is associated with a human-scale ambience made of low houses and mostly pedestrian and bicycle traffic....
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comme des garcons fw12 / lines and fluid planes
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Yohji Yamamoto FW12 from the back
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The End of Elegance : YSL's Stefano Pilati...
It’s not hyperbole to say that Yves Saint Laurent is the greatest, most evocative name in the history of fashion. Stefano Pilati has been the company’s creative director for the past decade, defining yet another era with his analytic eye for design and plainspoken opinions about fashion’s place in modern culture. Before taking the helm at YSL, Stefano worked closely with Tom Ford and Miuccia...
February 2012
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